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LEMUR In The News
We're happy about all the press we've been receiving lately.

A great feature on Eric & LEMUR is now on Vice's Motherboard.tv.

Plus recent print stories:


What We're Up To

This summer, we're working on appearances in western Massachusetts and Sao Paulo, Brazil (!). Details to follow in a future news blast.

Meanwhile, we're cocooning a bit, taking time to work on some new instruments and ideas, as well as forging some interesting collaborations with other performing groups.

We're also working on stirring up future children's and science museum installations with the LEMURtron. Please let us know if you have friends in high museum places that might be interested.


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Pat Metheny Orchestrion
The first part of the Pat Metheny Orchestrion Tour has concluded. Pat reported that LEMUR's instruments performed valiantly ("They were the least of our problems!" he told us). The tour will resume in October.

What does an "Orchestrion" look like? Check out this Gigapan image. Double-click to zoom in and see the instruments up close.



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LEMUR Robots and Pat Metheny's Orchestrion Project












Pat Metheny Orchestrion (click to play video)

From LEMUR Director Eric Singer:

After more than a year of work and collaboration, I am extremely excited to tell you about the Orchestrion Project. In 2008, 17-time Grammy-winning jazz artist Pat Metheny came to LEMUR with the idea to produce an album and tour backed entirely by robotic musical instruments. This led to a year-long project where we produced an orchestra of over 40 robotic instruments, including GuitarBots, mallet instruments and a large array of percussion. These instruments, augmented with several instruments by other roboticists, comprise the Orchestrion, a robotic orchestra entirely under Pat's compositional and improvisational control.

Pat spent the better part of 2009 composing for and recording with these instruments. The result is a new album entitled Orchestrion, scheduled for release on January 26, 2010. I've had the pleasure to preview the album and see Pat perform in studio with the Orchestrion. I and others who have heard and seen the Orchestrion Project believe it is some of the best music Pat has ever produced.

From February to May 2010, Pat will be touring the world with the Orchestrion. I am eagerly looking forward to the tour and the exposure it will bring to our art form and the great music produced by Pat Metheny with these instruments. When Orchestrion comes to your city, it is a performance not to be missed.

I would like to personally thank all of the LEMUR artists and apprentices who worked on this project. I especially want to thank Leif Krinkle and Boris Klompus - without their hard work and dedication, the extraordinary results we achieved would not have been possible.

This project, along with other projects, performances and installations we're working on in New York and Pittsburgh, should make 2010 a banner year for LEMUR. I hope we'll have the opportunity to share our work with you.

Pat Metheny's Orchestrion
Beginning in January 2010
More Information on the Orchestrion Project


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